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LOT 2304
Indus Valley Painted Geometric Pottery Bowl
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 in. (73 grams, 77 mm wide).
Drum-shaped with gently carinated base and narrow foot, the outer body displaying polychrome painted roundels with stepped borders.
Provenancewith Balakh Carpets, 2003.
Private collection, Europe.
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LOT 2304
Indus Valley Painted Geometric Pottery Bowl
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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Indus Valley Painted Terracotta Vessel Collection
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Including a squat bowl with herringbone band to the inner rim, biconical jar with segmented horizontal bands, bowl with slightly flared rim and scale pattern band to the equator, and other types. 1.46 kg total, 6.2-14.7 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Gandharan Schist Frieze Fragment
2nd-4th century A.D. or laterEstimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Carved corbel or column fragment with scrolled foliage to three faces and socket to upper face to accept a statue; three youthful figures - two females flanking a larger male - each wearing the hair dressed in a topknot, with radiating sunburst behind them and below a team of two horses galloping left with empty saddles and their reins flung back towards the central character, probably a charioteer. 13.3 kg, 37 cm wide
London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Very Large Indus Valley Terracotta Flask
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
Biconvex in profile with central dome to the upper face; two lateral loop handles to the shoulders and spout between with socketted rim; painted bands to the neck, median band with lion and ibex flanked by geometric bands to the rim and centre. 3.45 kg, 34 cm
European collection, formed 1960s. Private collection, London.
